TORONTO — The bustle and din of a Toronto neighbourhood that has long drawn people from across the city with its Greek restaurants and popular businesses was reduced to stunned silence on Monday as police confirmed that a child and a teenager were killed in a shooting spree carried out by a man whose motive remains a mystery.

Police revealed little Monday about the 29-year-old gunman, who was found dead after spraying bullets through the community known as Greektown the night before, saying only that investigators would be looking at all angles of the case.

A 10-year-old girl from the Greater Toronto Area and an 18-year-old woman from the city died in the rampage, police said, declining to provide their names. Six women and seven men, all ranging in age from 10 to 59, were injured, they said.

The attack took place along a stretch of Danforth Avenue, a street packed with independent businesses and surrounded by family homes and parks. On Monday, the area was largely deserted as police combed through the neighbourhood, though some locals showed up to try and make sense of the violence.

“It’s like a small village for us,” said Valia Dsaliou, who works at a Greek-language radio station in the area. “This is something that we couldn’t even imagine would happen, but it happened. But we don’t know why or what all this is supposed to mean to us.”

Those answers did not immediately come from Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders, who declined to comment on what prompted the attack.

“We do not know why this happened yet,” he said. “The investigation itself is very fluid, it is very new, it’s going to take some time.”

The shooting began around 10 p.m. on Sunday and only ended after two police officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter on a sidestreet near the site of the carnage, authorities said. The man was found dead on Danforth Avenue moments later.

The man’s death is being probed by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which looks into all deadly police-involved incidents. Spokeswoman Monica Hudon said the man’s identity may be revealed if his family grants permission.

On Monday afternoon, several blocks along Danforth were surrounded by yellow police tape and nearly all local businesses were closed. Mourners began placing bouquets of flowers at one major intersection and quietly discussing the tragedy.

Those that witnessed the shooting, however, were still reliving the terrifying moments of the attack.

Laurie Gutmann was with family at a restaurant waiting for his partner’s birthday cake to be served when the shots ring out.

“It was very quick — boom boom boom boom — and then we realized it was gunshots. There was a pause, and then there were more gunshots,” he said.

Gutmann said he heard screaming from the restaurant’s patio and saw a woman who had been shot in the thigh and was bleeding on the ground. Servers and fellow patrons provided first aid and held her hand until paramedics arrived, he said.

On Monday, Gutmann said he was reflecting at how close he and his family were to the tragedy.

“Had we not had the birthday cake, we would have been out there on Danforth, probably standing on the sidewalk kissing and hugging my parents goodbye right at the time of the shooting,” he said.

Lenny Graf, who was dining at another restaurant, was watching his nine-year-old son and a friend play around a nearby fountain when gunfire erupted.

“My first instinct was to try and find Jason and I saw him crouched behind the fountain and I noticed that the gunman had finished shooting there and was walking away,” he said. “I grabbed Jason and I took him into the alleyway. We ran to the back of restaurant to see that Jason’s friend was in there safe and so was my wife.”

Other witnesses posted photos and videos online, including a clip that appears to show a man, clad in black and carrying a satchel, walk a few steps before lifting his arms in front of him as gunshots ring out. That video was posted late Sunday by Instagram user @arilanise, who appears to have since deleted her account.

Area resident Gord Cheong said he and his wife heard those shots at home.

“We heard some banging just before going to bed last night and my wife turned to me and said, ‘Who the hell’s lighting fireworks at this time of year?”‘ Cheong said.

Tina Papachristos, who has called the neighbourhood home since childhood, said she’s struggling to process what happened. Her children visit the area nearly every night, she said, adding she’s grieving for the families of those killed.

“I can imagine the devastation of any mother … that had to lose a loved one,” she said. “I was up until about five in the morning just devastated.”

Toronto Mayor John Tory called the shooting an “unspeakable” act and said the time had come to confront the rising prevalence of guns in the city, which has experienced a spike in shootings in recent weeks.

“Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?” he said. “I know answering questions like this won’t fully eliminate tragedies like this, but even if we can prevent one of these incidents, then in my view it is a discussion worth having and having very soon.”

At Ontario’s legislature, politicians held a moment of silence and paid tribute to the shooting victims.

Premier Doug Ford called Sunday night’s incident the most “brazen” in the city to date.

“As a lifelong Toronto resident I have always been proud to speak up for and to defend this city,” he said. “Unlike so many other places, we’ve always been confident that this is a safe city. Today for too many, this confidence is shaken.”

The Greektown shooting spree comes nearly three months to the day after 10 people died in a van attack in a north Toronto neighbourhood.

Alek Minassian, 25, of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in connection with the April 23 incident.